Joshua Lavrinc, CEO, Grow Community Development Capital LLC, Pittsburgh, PA

In rust belt cities like Pittsburgh, and especially in low-income communities served by the NMTC program, there is often a gap in financial feasibility – whether for commercial projects that create important jobs or non-profit projects that deliver vital services – that can only be filled by a subsidy like the NMTC.

Madeleine Steczynski, Founder & Executive Director, Zumix, East Boston, Massachusetts

In 2009, we utilized New Market Tax Credits to purchase and renovate a long-abandoned city-owned fire station, transforming it into a state of the art creative youth development center. We employ over 50 artists, engineers and administrators, who serve close to 1,000 young people per year – dramatically improving their life trajectories. We are celebrating […]

Michelle Morlan, Principal, Lotus Development Partners LLC, Seattle, Washington

I have worked on more than 70 community projects for which this tool was critical to move them forward. From integrated healthcare facilities serving homeless adults to rural healthcare projects to early childhood education centers in public housing developments, the far reaching impact of the program is well documented. Preserving and extending this resource to […]

Michelle Seychel, Manager, Pine Lake Apartments, Waterford, Michigan

I have been managing LIHTC communities for the past 4 years. I have seen this program help so many low-income families get back on their feet. Not every family can afford to pay top dollar for rent, nor can they afford high move-in costs. The lower yearly rental increases help families stay in their homes […]

Lori Wright, CEO, Southwest Utah Community Health Center, St George

I am working on a capital project and with NMTC I will be able to safeguard funds that allow me to provide ongoing operational services for individuals facing a variety of barriers to care. NMTC are a critical piece in the ability of Health Centers to grow and thus serve more US residents facing barriers […]

Jill Steen, Corporation for Supportive Housing, New York, NY

CSH has received five NMTC allocations totaling $235 M in credit allocations to finance 16 projects and counting that serve low-income, high-health need individuals that are homeless or at risk of homelessness. These projects include: 1) community health centers, 2) projects that offer supportive services including social, healthcare, educational, food security and/or workforce development programs; […]

Jennifer Bransfield, COO and General Counsel, Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives

CNI serves neighborhoods on Chicago’s South Side. We have leveraged over $350 million in new industrial, retail, and recreational development in a single census tract in Pullman through the New Markets Tax Credits program. Since the first NMTC investment in 2013, violent crime in the neighborhood has dropped 52% and jobs in the community have […]

David McGirr, CEO, Greater Huron Development Corporation, Huron, South Dakota

As the former Mayor of Huron, and current Economic Development Director, I can speak directly to the impact that the NMTC program has had in Huron. NMTC funding was a critical component of the funding package for Central Park, a brownfield redevelopment project in the heart of Huron. This project had been languishing for years […]

Tony Gibbons, Executive Director, Loudon County Habitat, Lenoir City, Tennessee

As a small rural community that also has a growing and “urbanizing” community the New Market Tax Credit program opened up capital to invest in affordable housing when other sources were either unattainable or depleted. It is a creative mechanism for allowing nonprofits to utilize tax credits to benefit their local communities. Without this opportunity, […]

Patricia Rock, Princpal, BlueSuite Solutions, Inc., New York, NY

As a Community Development professional with over 20 years as a Bank CRA Officer, I’ve witnessed the positive impact that the NMTC program has had since its inception, revitalizing the low-income communities which I serve, by permitting individual and corporate investors to receive a tax credit’s against their federal income tax in exchange for making […]

Wayne Meyer, President, Community Loan Fund Of New Jersey, Inc, New Brunswick

As a Community Development Finance Institution, we use federal funding through the CDFI Fund’s competitive award programs to leverage private capital and finance high-impact projects in communities where need is greatest but mainstream capital is scarce. To date, NJCC has been awarded $14.8 million in CDFI grants, $50M in CDFI Bond Guarantees and $250 million […]

John O’Callaghan, President & CEO, Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership

ANDP is a not-for-profit affordable housing development, policy, and community engagement organization serving the metro Atlanta region which has developed over 500 single-family homes for people of low and moderate incomes since 2008. NMTCs have been critical to ANDP’s increased single-family production, allowing for the development of 124 NMTC-funded single-family affordable homes since 2017. NMTCs […]

Charles Spies, Former Chief Executive Officer, CEI Capital Management LLC, Brunswick, Maine

[The NMTC is ] a tool to mitigate for declining economic activity, especially in rural areas. We use the NMTC program financing structures to: support the global competitiveness of long-standing core industries to; build economic diversification through investment in new and growing industries; support the foundational institutions in communities such as health care and educational […]